Does God Desire All to be Saved?

Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers

Leighton Flowers

Baptist, Atonement, Reformed, Bible, Religion & Spirituality, Calvinism, Biblical, Arminianism, Calvin, Christianity, Christian

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🗓️ 14 August 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Drs. David Platt, John MacArthur, John Piper and many other notable Calvinistic leaders throughout history have affirmed "that God loves all people in the world (John 3:16) and he desires all people's salvation (2 Peter 3:9)." But the apparent inconsistency of that perspective from the Calvinistic worldview has lead many of the Younger Reformed and Restless types to abandon the idea of God's love and desire for all people. What effect can this have on the church?

Dr. Leighton Flowers examines this issue and explains why we must hold to a consistent soteriology that maintains God's genuine self-sacrificial love for every single man, woman, boy and girl.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Sociology 101. We're going to answer the question, does God desire all to be saved?
0:06.2	Simply put, yes. I think the Bible is absolutely clear in answering this question. I can refer to
0:13.8	probably a half a dozen texts, if not more, and many other texts which implicitly show God's
0:20.1	genuine desire and love and the value that
0:22.8	he has on every single person created in his image. God, our Savior, desires all men to be
0:30.0	saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth is First Timothy 2.4. Now, I've exegated these
0:35.1	passages on other broadcasts, and I'm not going to get into too much of the details on all these particular passages.
0:42.7	But I also want to acknowledge that there are many Calvinists, especially within my own denomination among Southern Baptists, who affirm the fact that God does love and desire the salvation of all people.
0:56.2	In fact, they would even say that it's a hyper form or a high form of Calvinists
1:00.8	that denies that God genuinely does desire and want the salvation of every person.
1:06.5	For example, the head of our North American Mission Board is a man by the name of Dr. David
1:11.9	Platt, who I have a lot of respect for. He's a good Christian brother and happens to be Calvinistic.
1:18.2	But he wrote in Christianity today, he wrote this. He says, I believe without hesitation
1:23.4	or equivocation that God loves all people in the world, John 316, and he desires all people's
1:30.2	salvation, 2. Peter 3.9. As followers of Jesus, saved by his matchless grace, Ephesians 2, 1 through 10,
1:37.4	we are compelled to go with urgency to all people to tell them compassionately of God's love for them,
1:44.6	2 Corinthians 4.5, and to call them clearly to repent and believe in Christ, Matthew 417, Acts 2.38.
1:53.3	As we do this, I believe we're, we simply need to be as biblical as possible, 2 Timothy 2.15.
1:59.6	I do not believe it is wrong for someone to pray a prayer of
2:02.0	salvation, certainly not. Calling out to God in prayer with repentant faith is a fundamental to being
2:08.6	saved, Romans 10, 9, and 10. And so he is trying to, I think, curtail some of the higher Calvinists,
2:20.0	some of the Calvinists that are maybe taking Calvinism beyond Calvin and beyond what Calvinists really have historically even maybe held to,
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